"… Mehitable Dudley. b. ____ 1682, in Saybrook, Conn., dau. of William and Mary (Roe) Dudley, of the same place. … Mrs. Mehitable j. ch., Feb. 23, 1717, or '18, as the wife of Ensign Joshua Brainerd. … In The New London Gazette of Feb. 12, 1773, is found the following: 'On the 23th. Ult., at East Haddam, Mrs. Mehitable Brainerd, widow of Capt. Joshua Brainerd in the 87th. year of her age, very suddenly, taken with a severe pain in her head which went all over her body, when the pain left her, in which condition she remained about an hour when she expired.' Her death is thus recorded by Judah Cone, who married her granddaughter. 'In Feb. 1773, died Mehitable Brainerd, grand-mother, in the 84th year of her age.'"